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Reddit, Meta, and Google Voluntarily Gave DHS Info of Anti-ICE Users, Report Says (gizmodo.com)

submitted 1 month ago by Blaze@piefed.zip to c/privacy@programming.dev

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DHS is expanding its use of administrative subpoenas, which don't come from judges.

Reddit, Meta, and Google voluntarily “complied with some of the requests” for identifying details of users critical of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) sent as part of a recent wave of administrative subpoenas the Department of Homeland Security has been distributing to Big Tech the past few months, according to an anonymously sourced New York Times report.

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[–] sp3ctre@feddit.org 17 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Every US based company is pretty much legally obliged to hand over everything, even if they collect data outside of US.

This is nothing new. New is, that this data is now getting abused at large scale.

[–] VitoRobles@lemmy.today 19 points 1 month ago

Absolutely.

EVERY. U.S. COMPANY.

It used to be that courts would slow it down. But the Trump administration is showing that they don't care about the law. How they have been weaponizing ICE, it's pretty clear cut that they will use or abuse any tool to get their way.

Discord is just a start.

All the companies relying on Amazon and AWS will be compromised too. Which includes all the open-source software storing their backups on S3.